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UM forecasts 2.7pct growth this year on ‘economic uncertainty’

Lawmaker seeks safety measures for tobacco control officers Lawmaker Lam Lon Wai has asked the government to ensu-re the safety of tobacco control officers, following the incident last week in which a police officer fi-red a warning gunshot when assaulted by unruly smokers outside Galaxy Macau.

In his inquiry to the government, Lam noted that tobacco control offi-cers have to deal with at-

tacks and insults during their law enforcement duties.

The Galaxy Macau in-cident reflects an increa-sed challenge for tobacco control officers and police officers who are responsi-ble for enforcing the law.

In Lam’ opinion, the po-lice authority, the Health Bureau (SSM) and the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), as well as the ga-

ming operators, need to set up additional support in order to guarantee the safety of tobacco control officers working on the frontline.

Lam asked the govern-ment about the measures employed by the police authority, SSM, and DICJ that ensure the officers’ safety.

The lawmaker further noted, citing the SSM’s statistics on the number

of prosecutions of illegal smoking behaviors, that approximately 70 per-cent of illegal smokers are tourists.

Lam believes that this data shows that tourists are the main target of to-bacco control promotio-nal campaigns, therefore he wants the government to reveal the details of the new tobacco control law’s promotional campaign to tourists.

The University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Eco-nomics and Centre for Macau Studies yesterday released its Macroeconomic Forecast for Macau report for 2019. The re-port indicated that analysts ex-pect an aggregate annual growth of 2.7 percent in the special ad-ministrative region.

In terms of the whole eco-nomy, analyst growth expecta-tions vary widely, with the most pessimistic pointing to a con-traction of 6.5 percent and the most optimistic suggesting that Macau’s gross domestic product could grow by nearly 12 percent.

The cause of this discrepancy, according to the UM report, is the inherent nature of Macau’s export-led economy, which is highly sensitive to external eco-nomic conditions and govern-ment policies. “Economic un-certainty continues to affect Ma-cau’s economic growth in 2019,” it said, adding that forecasts “may adjust greatly throughout the year.”

Largely dependent on its behe-moth casino sector, Macau’s 2.7 percent economic growth rate pales in comparison to the 14 percent increase in gross ga-ming revenue seen across 2018, even as that growth slowed in the later quarters of the year.

Considering the entire eco-nomy, Macau gross domestic product grew by only 1.6 percent year-on-year in the third quar-ter of 2018 to reach MOP100.9 billion, down from the 9.4 per-cent and 5.9 percent year-on- year growth in the first and se-cond quarter of 2018 respecti-vely.

The aggregate growth estimate of 2.7 percent falls 1 percentage point short of global growth pro-jections made by the Internatio-nal Monetary Fund (IMF) in Oc-

tober last year. That projection had been revised downward from one in April 2018, with the IMF highlighting “suppressed activities in […] some major ad-vanced economies” and the “ne-gative effects of the trade mea-sures” as two underlying causes.

Macau’s projected growth is then expected to keep up with other developed economies around the world. For example, gross domestic product in the United States is expected to ex-pand by 2 percent this year, whi-le that of the Euro area is projec-ted to see 1.9 percent growth.

Meanwhile, mainland China –

whose economy has the greatest influence on Macau’s growth – will likely see a further slow-down in 2019, due to “the nega-tive effects of the trade friction with the U.S.” and other struc-tural adjustments that are sur-facing. The mainland’s economy grew at 6.5 percent in the third quarter of last year, causing a slowdown in Hong Kong – ano-ther major market of Macau’s service exports – to 2.9 percent in the same quarter.

Accordingly, Macau’s exports of services are expected to grow at a slower rate in 2019, falling to a rate of 4.2 percent. At the

same time, exports of goods are expected to increase by 0.6 per-cent. Imports of goods are ex-pected to rise by 3.1 percent in 2019. Amid the slower rise in ex-ports of services, the imports of services will expand modestly. The growth rates of imports of services are expected to increase by 4.2 percent in 2019.

For domestic demand, private consumption spending in 2018 continued to grow steadily. It is expected to grow at 4 percent in 2019, while total investment is expected to decline by 7.9 per-cent in 2019.

Inflation, as measured by

change in the composite consu-mer price index, is expected to hold steady in 2019 at around 3 percent. For the aggregate eco-nomy, the gross domestic pro-duct price deflator is forecast to increase by 4.1 percent.

The UM report noted that the labor market will likely re-main tight this year, with the unemployment rate holding at 2 percent and median monthly employment earnings rising slightly to MOP16,205. Exclu-ding non-resident workers, the unemployment rate of residents is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2019.

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Recipients of the SAR’s Me-dal for Distinguished Service – Medal for Bravery, expressed their gratitude towards the government for honoring their public work, re-calling the occurrences of the city’s two strong typhoons.

Tomorrow, the SAR government will award three recipients in this particular category: the Emergency Department of the Conde S. Janua-rio Hospital, the Civil Protection Operations Centre, and Chao Ka Cheong who is second in command of the Fire Services Bureau.

Medals for Distinguished Servi-ce are awarded to public entities, organizations or their staff for ou-tstanding performance in their du-ties or community service.

These awardees will be honored for their works during Typhoon Mangkhut.

According to Lei Wai Seng, the director of the Emergency Depart-ment at the public hospital, the award serves as an encouragement to his team and their performan-ces.

“Our whole team feels encoura-ged because that means our years of work are endorsed by the gover-nment and the public. […] Emer-gency is the frontline department, so besides emergency work, we do a lot of works, including prepara-tions for disasters, and each time there is a big event in Macau, my whole team is always preparing for any immediate action for any inci-dent,” Lei told the press.

“Under abnormal conditions, such as when we face typhoons, my team takes no rest and stay at their duty. During Typhoon Mangkhut, we did a lot of work. The [SAR’s] report said that our medical work is quite prepared and we have a fast action towards [emergencies]. Overall, we thank all the residen-ts and the government’s endorse-ment,” he added.

The department recalled that during Typhoon Hato, the hospital received approximately 1,000 pa-tients.

“If the government prepares [for typhoons], such as the last time during Typhoon Mangkhut, we only received about ten patien-ts. We are happy, that during that typhoon, we had more medical staff standby compared to Hato. However, the work [we did] was a lot less compared to Hato,” the di-rector recalled.

The second awardee - the Ci-vil Protection Operations Centre (COPC) – pledged that it would continue to ensure safety during future disasters.

According to Kam Chit Soi, sub-commissioner of COPC’s public re-lations department, improvement works are being carried out:

“We have been continuing the improvement. We purchased a

typhoon accident system, we im-proved our information releasing works and departments communi-cation mechanism.”

“In the future, we will [use] the [recognition] to push forward our work, and hopefully, that we can try our best to ensure their safety during disasters,” she added.

Kam also suggested that the de-partment was more prepared during Typhoon Mangkhut, noting that this year’s works were consi-dered satisfactory and that it is a “payback to our works for the im-provement after Typhoon Hato.”

Chao Ka Cheong, second in command of the Fire Services Bu-reau, acknowledged the works of his colleagues during Typhoon Mangkhut, recalling that the bu-reau had received approximately 1,000 phone calls during Typhoon Hato, breaking the number of pho-ne calls it recorded in a day.

“It is difficult for us to handle such a large number of calls but we tried our best to help all of them and we handled the disaster by prioritizing which areas needed help the most first,” said Chao.

“A year after Typhoon Hato hit Macau, the COPC reviewed our contingency plan so we had a better emergency response to Typhoon Mangkhut. We also introduced more equipment after Hato in or-der to deal with future disasters,” the official added.

Chao started working for the Fire Services Bureau in 1987 and assu-med the second in command posi-tion in 2016, also serving a sting in the Macau Security Force.

Tomorrow, the SAR government will be giving Decorations, Medals and Certificates of Merit awards to 46 individuals and organizations in recognition of, respectively, achie-vement, outstanding contribution and distinguished service.

The list follows recommendations from the Committee of Nomination of Medals and Honorary Titles.

The awards for Decorations of Honor include the Decoration of Honor – Grand Lotus; the Decora-tion of Honor – Golden Lotus; and the Decoration of Honor – Silver Lotus. Such awards are for indi-viduals or entities that have made outstanding contributions to the image and reputation of the MSAR.

It will also grant seven types of Medal of Merit for individuals or entities that have made major or excellent contributions in their res-pective fields.

The Chief Executive, Chui Sai On, presided yesterday a seminar to mark the 40th anniversary of the issuing of the “Message to Compatriots in Taiwan.” Chui said that the principle of “one country, two systems” being applied in Macau and Hong Kong would be adequate for Taiwan.

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Lei calls for better supervision of property sale fraud Lawmaker Lei Cheng I urged the government to improve the city’s notary regime in regard to property sales matters. In her written inquiry to the government, Lei pointed out that many residents fell victim to fraud, where third parties pretended to be house owners selling properties. Lei proposed that Macau’s legal affairs authority and police authority work with private notary professionals, real estate professionals and banking professionals to prevent that type of fraud. She also wants the government to disclose the amendment progress concerning the property registration law.

Mobile application of ‘Cadastral Information Website’ launched The Cartography and Cadastre Bureau launched the mobile application of “Cadastral Information Website” (https://cadastre.gis.gov.mo) which provides the public with a service platform suitable for use on smartphones or tablets (iOS or Android). According to the bureau, the new site is an integrated land information platform on land and buildings from various departments, where users can enquire about land, urban planning, cultural heritage and property registration. The total number of users in the Chinese and Portuguese versions has exceeded 1.04 million since it was launched.

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Morgan Stanley predicts 2pct contraction this yearMorgan Stanley has joined other analysts in forecasting a Macau gaming slowdown this year, sugges-ting that gross revenue might shrink by as much as 2 per-cent. The downturn might begin with a decline in ear-nings of Macau casino opera-tors during the first quarter.

In a note issued over the weekend, the stockbroking division of Morgan Stanley wrote that it had changed its industry view from “attracti-ve” to “in-line” on the basis of “tightened liquidity, [the] full smoking ban pressuring VIP and premium mass growth in 2019, and potential decline in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortiza-tion year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2019.”

“While Macau is a structural growth story driven by low penetration and improving infrastructure, we see the cy-clical slowdown continuing in 2019,” it continued, as cited by GGR Asia.

Gross gaming revenue fi-nished stronger than expec-ted last month, leading 2018 to conclude with a full-year tally of MOP302.85 billion (USD37.57 billion), a 14 per-cent year-on-year growth over the MOP265.74 billion seen in 2017, according to official data released by the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coor-dination Bureau.

Morgan Stanley’s 2019 fore-cast is in line with that of other analyst firms, which last week estimated that gross gaming growth would hold stable this

year or face a slight contrac-tion.

Union Gaming Securities Asia warned that it expected a “slow start” to the year, given the timing of the lucrative Chi-nese Lunar New Year in early February. The firm said in a note that it would “not be sur-prised if January was flattish and February was up in the mid/high single digits.”

Sanford C. Bernstein has also revised its forecasts for 2019. Previously it expected 2019 to bring a 5 percent expansion to gaming revenue, but it now

forecasts a 2 percent contrac-tion, driven by negative VIP growth of 6 percent and mo-derate mass- market growth of 2 percent.

Analysts are concerned that the structural changes intro-duced by the full smoking ban will weigh on operators’ ability to retain gamblers at the ta-bles.

Other factors that might af-fect this year’s revenue include any divulged information on the casino licensing process as well as the effects of a deepe-ning China-U.S. trade war.

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The Macao Orchestra (OM) will join with a num-ber of local musicians and music students to present the concert “The Future of Classi-cal Music” on Saturday at the University of Macau.

With the aim of encoura-ging local young music talen-ts, every year OM organizes concerts and performs jointly with local music lovers and students, allowing them to showcase their talents. This year, OM has pledged to con-tinue to collaborate with va-rious local music entities, ar-ranging young music studen-ts to rehearse together with professional music ensembles and providing guidance from the orchestra’s musicians.

Under the baton of the or-chestra’s assistant conduc-tor, Francis Kan, “The Future of Classical Music” features three masterpieces, including “Overture to Poet,” “Peasant by Suppé” and “Caprice Bohé-mien” (all by Rachmaninoff), and Tchaikovsky’s “Overture to 1812.” Performing groups also include The University of Macau String Orchestra, The University of Macau Sympho-

Lawmaker Sulu Sou has asked the gover-nment to temporarily suspend the telecommu-nication interception legislation in a written inquiry to the gover-nment.

Sou said that, “in practice, there is still a lack of clear and strong monitoring mechanisms, especially self and public moni-toring, to ensure that the poli-ce’s interception power will not be abused.”

Sou noted that the court does not have the capacity to super-vise the police’s interceptions, since only the specific judge of any given interception request can know about the intercep-tion.

The lawmaker also noted that “the judges objectively cannot ensure that the police’s words are all facts, […] moreover, it is impossible [for the judges] to constantly monitor whether the police have exceeded the scope of the approved monitoring.”

“The current judicial monito-ring mechanism is not perfect.

nic Band, The Student Phi-lharmonic Orchestra of the Macao Conservatory, Macau Band Directors Association, Macau Strings Association, students of the Bachelor of Arts in Music course from the Macau Polytechnic Institute, and two local young music ta-lents, Cheang Ka In and Iong Hou In.

Admission to “The Future of Classical Music” is free. In-terested parties can reserve tickets through tel. no. 2853 0782 during office hours or subscribe to the official We-Chat account of the Macao Or-chestra for reservation.

The judges have no supervision regarding the monitoring, and can only listen to the police’s unilateral statement. […] It is difficult for the courts and the public to detect and prove illegal interception,” Sou wrote.

“Does the administration au-thority admit that its allegations have been misleading the pu-blic? Is there any specific me-thod within the administration party to monitor […] illegal in-terception? What are the guide-

lines and procedures for using an interception? Is there an independent third party other than the investigator to confirm that [the police] has obtained the judge’s approval prior to the interception?” Sou asked.

“Will the administration sus-pend the relevant legislative proposals until a formal and strong internal, judicial and pu-blic monitoring mechanism is formally proposed?” Sou wrote in his inquiry.

Sulu Sou asks for suspension of interception legislation

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Wong proposes use of pepper spray instead of gunsThe Secretary for Security, Wong Sio Chak, has said that he has already petitioned the director of the Public Security Police Force to equip the police officers stationed in casinos with pepper spray. Following last week’s gunshot case at the entrance of Galaxy resort, Wong noted that it is not a trivial matter in Macau to shoot a gun. He proposed that the PSP avoid the use of guns. The Secretary also noted that the police officers stationed in the casino were equipped with pepper spray, rather than guns, seven years ago. Regarding last week’s case, Wong said that police force support mechanism should be reviewed. However, he defended the officer action, saying that he was “very brave and there isn’t any reason to suspend him.”

Woman died in illegal hostel from gas poisoning A 68-year-old mainland woman was found dead from breathing a high concentration of carbon monoxide at a suspected illegal guesthouse. The woman’s body was discovered by her daughter on Sunday morning. The woman was sleeping in the kitchen of a guesthouse, where an LP Gas Water Heater was installed. The Fire Services found both the kitchen window and door closed. A fire fighter explained that in such conditions, the LP Gas Water Heater releases carbon monoxide at a gradually increasing concentration, which led to the woman’s death. The suspected accommodation is located in the ZAPE area. According to the Judiciary Police, no suspicious injuries were spotted on the body of the deceased.

Each mailman delivers 4,000 letters daily On a daily basis, each of Macau’s mail carriers delivers 4,000 non-registered letters, according to a report by TDM. The Post, Telegraph and Telephones Office (CTT) said that they handled a total of approximately 40 million packages in 2018, including 100,000 express services. During the year, the peak of mail delivery occurred in July, August, September and December, with mail during that time being mainly associated with the government’s cash handout and taxes, commercial purposes, and the delivery of online purchased products. Currently, CTT has a team of 100 carriers aged 30 years old on average. The team provides sufficient human resources for its services.

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Money exchanger robbed of HKD1.25 million

Fringe Festival opens on Friday The 18th Macau City Fringe Festival will commence on Friday at 7:30 pm at the Old Court Building. The event will be held from January 11 to 27.

During the inaugura-tion, the “18th Branch of Macau City Fringe Su-permarket” will have its opening. Coming from the United Kingdom, the performance “Sigma” by Gandini Juggling circus and award-winning cho-reographer Seeta Patel will then take to the sta-ge. The show is descri-

bed by the Cultural Af-fairs Bureau as “a com-bination of circus and classical Indian dance.”

Other performances included in this year’s edition of the Fringe Festival include the Inte-ractive Urban Music En-semble (featuring an art installation and an out-door orchestra), “Ephe-meral Windows – Roof-top Street Art” (street art made with rice paper), “The Icebook” by British artists Davy & Kristin McGuire (described as “the world’s first pro-

jection mapped pop-up book”) and the show “Be My Old Friend” by the Dream Theatre Associa-tion, which tells personal stories of the elderly and their cherished objects, piecing together the by-gone days of Macau.

This edition of the Frin-ge Festival also features 10 outreach activities, including workshops, talks, art critique, sha-ring sessions and more, all seeking to enrich the audience’s artistic expe-rience with more diverse activities.

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A money exchanger reported to the poli-ce that he had been robbed of HKD1.25 million following a money exchange scam, the Judiciary Police (PJ) reported yester-day.

The self-proclaimed victim is a mainland man, aged around 40, who has been working in an illegal money exchange in town.

According to the victim’s re-port, he was robbed last Sa-turday, inside a hotel room located in Cotai.

The Public Security Police (PSP) received the man’s re-port at 9.30 p.m., last Satur-day, and then forwarded the case to PJ.

Around 6.30 p.m. of that same day, the victim recei-ved a phone call from a stran-ger (one of the suspects) asking for a money exchange service involving a total of RMB830,000. The suspect gave a hotel room number, and asked the victim to ex-change the money inside the room. The victim followed the man’s request and went

to the hotel’s lobby along with a male friend. Upon meeting, the suspect and the victim headed to the hotel room to-gether.

However, two other men were inside the hotel room. The three suspects tied up the victim and his friend and left the hotel room. After re-leasing himself from the cab-le ties, the victim discovered that his bag which contained HKD1.25 million inside, had been taken by the suspects.

The victim sustained two black eyes during the process but refused medical treat-ment. Both victims work as money exchangers.

The case is being followed by the PJ’s investigation depart-ment. No suspects have been found yet.

Last year, in April, one money exchanger was also robbed of HKD170,000; HKD140,000 in casino chips and the rest in cash. The victim was invi-ted by a stranger to exchange money. The money exchanger was then drugged by the cus-tomer and two accomplices, and fell asleep on a sofa in a Cotai casino lobby as an effect of the drugs he was given.

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couple charged for document infringement

a LocaL man and his wife, both aged around 30, have been transferred to the prosecution authority under the accusation of document infringement. Between 2013 and 2018, the man applied for a work permit for 20 people in total. The man first applied for a temporary staying permit for

each one of these people and, a short period after the government granted the approval, the man then canceled the employment contract. According to the police, by doing so, these employees could stay in Macau looking for other jobs. In total, the couple obtained MOP144,000.

Mainland man arrested due to rape accusation A 33-year-old mainland man has been arrested following an accusation of rape, the PJ reported yesterday.

The suspect, surnamed Yang, was accused by a mainland woman in her 30s.

The two met one month ago while both were visiting Macau. After getting to know each other, both agreed to meet in Ma-cau again to gamble on January 2.

Both the suspect and the victim were staying in the same room in a Cotai hotel, which was booked under the victim’s name. On the following day, January 3, the suspect raped the victim inside this room.

No obvious injury was seen on the victim, according to the police. The suspect was transferred to the prosecution autho-rity on January 4.

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As Chinese New Year approaches, Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace Cotai are offering traditional dishes at their restaurants to celebrate the arrival of a new year.

At Wynn Macau, Golden Flower, which has received

Celebrity Chef Henrique Sá Pessoa will bring cuisi-ne from his Michelin two- star Alma restaurant in Lisbon to his newly-opened Chia-

wynn announces festive cuisines for cny The restaurant will also present traditional seaso-nal Northern Chinese-style dishes, such as fried Beijing New Year cakes.

Meanwhile, Wing Lei, whi-ch has received Michelin recognition for 10 consecu-tive years, will serve deep-fried Malaysia Marlboro fish with supreme soy sauce – a Chinese New Year classic. The Marlboro from Malaysia is tender and sweet, and is heralded as one of the best varieties of freshwater fish, the gaming operator noted in a statement.

Red 8 and 99 Noodles are also offering Chinese New Year favorites, with special Chinese New Year and Chef Recommended dishes from China’s north and south.

Chef Henrique draws on in-fluences including his know-ledge of the country’s traditio-nal cuisine, life in Lisbon, his travels around the world and his passion for Asia, accor-ding to a statement released by Sands Cotai Central.

The five-course dining ex-perience at Chiado includes glazed baby carrots, seared foie gras, salted cod, su-ckling pig confit, basil sorbet and blackberry textures and celery.

Chiado was developed in partnership with the cele-brity chef and is a modern, fine-dining yet informal con-cept emphasising traditional dishes.

The restaurant is also com-plemented by an extensive Portuguese wine cellar.

the Michelin two-star ho-nor for seven consecutive years, is introducing a se-ries of new dishes including one of its highlights, the “sliced red grouper and live abalone served in hot fish soup.”

do Portuguese restaurant at Sands Cotai Central for a series of exclusive dining events on Jan. 18, 19 and 21-26, 2019.

Taiwan arrests six accused of leaking BASF tech to China Debby Wu

Taiwan arrested six current and former BASF SE engineers accused of accepting bribes and sharing the German company’s technology with Jiangyin Jian-ghua Microelectronics Materials Co., in one of the more elaborate cases involving alleged Chinese intellectual property theft.

Jianghua offered them 40 million yuan (USD5.8 million) in return for help building a new factory in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, Criminal Investigation Bureau official Lu Sung-hao told reporters at a briefing yesterday. The main-land company had already wired TWD40 million ($1.3 million) to two accounts in Samoa control-led by the group, he added.

American and Taiwanese offi-cials have long accused Chinese companies of purloining intellec-tual property in a quest to climb the technology ladder, something Beijing’s consistently denied. Such leaks, which American of-ficials say include the forced transfer of technology, are a key complaint of Washington’s as the world’s two largest economies open talks to avert a damaging trade war.

The amount involved in the case is unusually large. Taiwa-nese officials have in the past accused mainland corporations of appropriating trade secrets by poaching talent, but Lu said Jianghua offered direct payment in return for proprietary tech-nology. Calls to Jianghua’s main line and an email to a corporate address went unanswered.

BASF Chief Executive Officer Martin Brudermueller, who took the helm in May, has made ex-

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Japanese businessman Kazuo Okada faces arrest in the Philippines after a trial court issued a warrant on charges that he allegedly embezzled USD3.16 million in funds from the Okada Ma-nila integrated casino resort.

The Paranaque City Regio-nal Trial Court Branch 257 also ordered the arrest of Takahiro Usui, Okada’s as-sociate and co-indicted by the justice department on allegations of unauthorized disbursement of company funds. The court, which is-sued the order Jan. 4, set bail at 348,000 pesos ($6,629) for each of the accused, court documents show.

The Philippine justice de-partment filed three counts of estafa against Okada and Usui, alleging that, as chair-man and president respec-tively of Okada Manila ope-rator’s Tiger Resort Leisure

pansion in China a central pillar of his strategy. Two months into his tenure, he announced BASF plans to build a second chemical complex in the country, at a cost of up to $10 billion.

BASF’s losses from the alleged theft could top out at 100 million euros ($114 million) per year, Lu said. A representative of BASF said the company doesn’t provi-de an estimate on losses and the amount can’t be confirmed by the company.

According to police, only one of the six accused was a current employee, though the others formerly worked for BASF. The German chemicals maker said it suspended the employee and has taken steps to support the inves-tigation and protect its intellec-tual property.

“To this end we have established systems and policies which mini-mize risks,” BASF said in a state-ment. “In light of this situation, we will further reinforce these information protection systems.”

Jianghua, which went public only in 2017, says it develops and sells materials for products from solar panels to electronics displays. The company, which

& Entertainment Inc., they conspired in the release of $3.16 million of company funds from April through May 2017 purportedly for payment of Okada’s salary and consultancy fees. The disbursement wasn’t autho-rized by the board, according to the charges.

In an emailed statement from his legal counsel, Oka-da said the charges are ba-seless and that he couldn’t defraud his own company because, until his “illegal” ouster in June 2017, he was in full control of Tiger Resort when the transactions were done.

Okada also said that, as sta-ted in his motion for reconsi-deration, the payments and fees were for services to the company and Usui was au-thorized by the board to en-ter into such contracts. Usai and his legal representative were unable to be reached for comment. Bloomberg

has a market value of about $348 million, is estimated to have grown revenue more than 10 per-cent to about 400 million yuan in 2018. Taiwan police ran down an anonymous tip and discovered a senior ex-BASF engineer was ge-tting about 90,000 yuan a month from the mainland company to recruit employees, Lu said.

U.S. companies and officials have long argued that China uses a range of tactics to acquire industrial designs and patents, and that Chinese entities enga-ge in widespread theft of U.S. trade secrets. A report released in November by U.S. Trade Re-presentative Robert Lighthizer’s office accused Beijing of waging a state-backed campaign of intel-lectual property theft, reiterating alarm about the country’s “Made in China 2025” ambition to do-minate key future technologies.

One of the more recent allega-tions that came to light involved Huawei Technologies Co., which has repeatedly denied it steals technology. American carrier T-Mobile filed a lawsuit in 2014 describing an incident in which a Huawei engineer allegedly stole a robot’s fingertip. Bloomberg

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Tesla breaks ground on factory in ShanghaiTesLa Inc. broke ground for a factory in Shanghai, its first outside the United States.

CEO Elon Musk said yesterday on Twitter that the company will start production in China of its Model 3 and a planned crossover by the end of the year.

Tesla announced plans in July to build the Giga-factory 3 facility in China, the biggest electric vehi-cle market, despite trade tension between Beijing and Washington. That followed Beijing’s annou-ncement it would end restrictions this year on foreign ownership of elec-tric vehicle producers in an effort to spur industry development.

“Looking forward to breaking ground on the @Tesla Shanghai Giga-factory today!” said Musk on Twitter. “Aiming to fi-

nish initial construction this summer, start Model 3 production end of year & reach high volume pro-duction next year.”

China’s state broadcas-ter CCTV showed Musk and other Tesla and local officials attending a chilly ceremony in the rain in Shanghai’s outskirts.

The Shanghai factory will produce “affordable versions of 3/Y for greater China,” Musk said. The company refers to a plan-ned crossover that has yet to receive a formal name as the Y.

Higher-priced models will be built in the United States for export to China,

Musk said.Tesla, based on Palo

Alto, California, global au-tomakers including Gene-ral Motors Co., Volkswa-gen AG and Nissan Motor Corp. that are pouring billions of dollars into ma-nufacturing electric vehi-cles in China.

Local production would

eliminate risks from tari-ffs and other import con-trols. It would help Tesla develop parts suppliers to support service and make its vehicles more appealing to mainstream Chinese buyers.

Tesla said in October it had signed an agreement for a 84-hectare site in the Lingang district in sou-theastern Shanghai.

Shanghai is a center of China’s auto industry and home to state-owned Shanghai Automotive In-dustries Corp., the main local manufacturer for GM and VW.

Tesla has yet to give a price tag but the Shanghai government said it would be the biggest foreign in-vestment there to date.

The company faces com-petition from Chinese brands including BYD Auto and BAIC Group that already sell tens of

thousands of hybrid and pure-electric sedans and SUVs annually.

Until now, foreign au-tomakers that wanted to manufacture in China were required to work through state-owned partners. Foreign brands balked at bringing elec-tric vehicle technology into China to avoid having to share it with potential competitors.

The first of the new elec-tric models being develo-ped by global automakers to hit the market, Nissan’s Sylphy Zero Emission, be-gan rolling off a produc-tion line in southern Chi-na in August.

Lower-priced elec-tric models from GM, Volkswagen and other global brands are due to hit the market starting this year, well before Tesla is up and running in Shan-ghai. AP

Huawei Technologies Ltd. unveiled a processor chip yesterday for data centers and cloud computing in a bid by the biggest global maker of telecom equipment to expand into new markets despite Western war-nings the company might be a security risk.

The announcement came as Chinese industries that rely on Western technology step up ef-forts to develop their own. That is fueling competition for U.S. and European suppliers and frustration among governments

that complain Beijing’s industry plans violate its trade obliga-tions.

Huawei said the Kunpeng 920 chip is designed for servers that handle a flood of data from smartphones, video and other network services. The company said it is part of a planned pro-duct lineup to support “intelli-gent computing.”

Huawei, founded in 1987 by a former military engineer, is Chi-na’s first global tech competitor and a national champion at the head of an industry the ruling

Communist Party is eager to promote. The company says it is employee-owned and rejects accusations by Washington and some other governments that it is controlled by the ruling party and might facilitate spying.

Chinese and U.S. envoys were due to meet Monday for talks over a tariff war triggered by American complaints about Bei-jing’s technology policies.

The Trump administration, Europe and other trading part-ners complain initiatives such as “Made in China 2025,” whi-

ch calls for state-led creation of Chinese global champions in robotics and other fields, vio-lates Beijing’s market-opening obligations. American officials worry they might erode U.S. in-dustrial leadership.

Huawei has pushed ahead with commercial initiatives despite the Dec. 1 arrest of its chief fi-nancial officer, Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, in Canada on U.S. charges related to possible viola-tions of trade sanctions on Iran.

The company says its 2018 global sales are forecast to top USD100 billion despite curbs imposed on use of its technology by the United States, Australia, Japan and some other govern-ments.

Huawei, headquartered in the southern city of Shenzhen, has steadily expanded into new in-

dustry segments. Its smartpho-ne brand, launched in 2010, passed Apple to become the glo-bal No. 2 seller behind Samsung in the third quarter of 2017, ac-cording to IDC. The company has developed the Kirin line of chips for its phones and Ascend chips for artificial intelligence.

The Kunpeng 920 chip is ba-sed on the ARM system used in-creasingly in smartphones and distributed computing. It com-petes in some settings with the x86 standard used by traditio-nal industry leaders Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Also yesterday, Huawei unvei-led three servers based on the new chip that are intended for global sale.

“Where we see the biggest value for the Kunpeng 920 is in data centers, servers and big data,” William Xu, Huawei’s chief strategy marketing officer and a member of the company board, said at a news conference in Shenzhen.

Huawei has China’s biggest corporate research and develo-pment budget at $13 billion in 2017.

Those investments have hel-ped to reduce Huawei’s relian-ce on Western technology but its servers, smartphones and other products still use billions of dollars’ worth of U.S., Euro-pean, Japanese and other chip-sets and other technology.

Executives at the event avoided replying directly when asked whether American security war-nings might hurt sales or about concerns U.S.-Chinese rivalry in technology might split the world into separate spheres with their own incompatible standards. AP

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Beijing protests over US warship sighting as talks startChinese and Ame-rican officials began talks yesterday aimed at ending a bruising ta-riffs battle between the world’s two biggest economies, as Bei-jing complained over the sigh-ting of a U.S. warship in what it said were Chinese waters.

It was unclear if the ruckus over the warship might disrupt the working level talks being held at the Chinese Commerce Ministry. The two sides have provided scant information about the discussions.

Both sides have expressed op-timism over the potential for progress in settling their tariff fight over Beijing’s technology ambitions. Yet neither has in-dicated its stance has changed since a Dec. 1 agreement by Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to postpone further increases.

Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said yesterday during a routine briefing that Chinese military aircraft and naval vessels were dispatched to identify the U.S. vessel and warn it to leave the area near disputed islands in the South China Sea.

“We have made stern com-plaints with the U.S.,” Lu said. He said the warship, which he said was the destroyer the USS McCampbell, had violated Chi-nese and international law, in-fringed on Chinese sovereignty and undermined peace and stability.

“As for whether this move has any impact to the ongoing Chi-na-U.S. trade consultations... to properly resolve existing is-sues of all kinds between Chi-na and the U.S. is good for the two countries and the world,” Lu said

But he added, “The two si-des both have responsibility to create necessary and good at-mosphere to this end.”

There was no immediate com-ment from the U.S. side about the Chinese complaint.

The American side in the tra-de talks is being led by a depu-ty U.S. trade representative, Jeffrey D. Gerrish, according to the U.S. government. The delegation includes agricultu-re, energy, commerce, treasury and State Department officials.

The talks went ahead despi-te tensions over the arrest of a Chinese tech executive in Ca-nada on U.S. charges related to possible violations of trade sanctions against Iran.

Trump imposed tariff in-creases of up to 25 percent on USD250 billion of Chinese im-ports over complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology. Bei-

jing responded by imposing penalties on $110 billion of American goods, slowing cus-toms clearance for U.S. com-panies and suspending issuing licenses in finance and other businesses.

Economists say the 90-day postponement of tariff increa-ses that had been meant to take effect Jan. 1 may be too short to settle the disputes bedevi-ling U.S.-Chinese relations.

But cooling economic grow-th in both countries is raising pressure to reach a settlement.

Chinese growth fell to a post-global crisis low of 6.5 percent in the quarter ending in Sep-tember. Auto sales tumbled 16 percent in November over a year earlier. Weak real estate sales are forcing developers to cut prices.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter, and unem-ployment is at a five-decade low. But surveys show consu-mer confidence is weakening because of concern that growth will slow this year.

Washington, Europe and other trading partners com-plain Beijing’s tactics violate its market-opening obligations.

The standoff also reflects American anxiety about Chi-na’s rise as a potential com-petitor in telecommunications and other technology. Trump wants Beijing to roll back ini-tiatives intended to create ho-megrown Chinese leaders in robotics and artificial intelli-gence.

China’s leaders see such stra-tegies as a path to greater pros-

perity and global influence and have tried to defuse complaints by emphasizing the country’s potential as a huge consumer market.

They’ve also promised to allow more foreign access to its auto, finance and other indus-tries.

Beijing has tried in vain to re-cruit France, Germany, South Korea and other governments as allies against Trump, but they have echoed U.S. com-plaints about Chinese indus-trial policy and market bar-riers.

The European Union filed its own challenge in the Wor-ld Trade Organization in June against Chinese rules that the 28-nation trade bloc said ham-per the ability of foreign com-panies to protect and profit from their own technology.

For their part, Chinese offi-cials are unhappy with U.S. curbs on exports of “dual use” technology with possible mi-litary applications. They com-plain China’s companies are treated unfairly in national security reviews of proposed corporate acquisitions, though almost all deals are approved unchanged.

Some manufacturers that serve the United States have shifted production to other countries to avoid Trump’s ta-riffs. AP

Top Xi aide unexpectedly shows up at trade talksChinese Vice Premier Liu He unex-pectedly attended the first day of talks aimed at resolving the trade dispute be-tween the world’s two biggest economies, according to people familiar with the mat-ter and a photo seen by Bloomberg.

Liu is the top economic adviser to Chine-se President Xi Jinping, who led previous negotiations in Washington that produced a deal that President Donald Trump then repudiated. China had previously said the talks would be led by a lower-ranking offi-cial from the Ministry of Commerce.

It’s unclear how long Liu stayed, or what he discussed. The Ministry of Commer-ce didn’t immediately respond to a fax seeking comment on Liu’s appearance. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthi-zer is expected to meet with Liu later this month, a person familiar with the situation said last week.

Liu’s participation in the meeting, held at the ministry’s premises, signals that China is attaching high importance to the talks, even if the main participants this time are mid-level officials. While markets have rallied the past few sessions, a wider down-

turn over the past month and a deepening economic slowdown are increasing pressu-re for a deal.

The talks are the first face-to-face inte-ractions between the U.S. and China sin-ce both presidents met in Argentina and agreed a temporary truce in their tit-for-tat tariff war. More senior-level discussions are expected later this month, with the South China Morning Post reporting that Trump and Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan may meet at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

China’s foreign ministry yesterday con-firmed that Wang would deliver a keynote speech at Davos. Lu Kang, a spokesman for the ministry, told reporters he’s unaware of any plans for Wang to meet Trump. He also said he had no further information on this week’s trade talks.

The American delegation in Beijing is being led by Deputy U.S. Trade Represen-tative Jeffrey Gerrish. Preliminary discus-sions were “a little more optimistic than usual,” White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told Bloomberg TV Friday. Bloomberg

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Nobel laureate Ramos-Horta urges Indonesia-Papua dialogueOki Raimundos, Dili

NobeL Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos- Horta has urged Indone-sia’s government to hold talks with the Papuan in-dependence movement to help end a decades-long insurgency in the coun-try’s easternmost region.

Ramos-Horta, joint re-cipient of the 1996 Nobel prize for efforts to bring independence and peace to East Timor, which suf-fered a brutal Indonesian occupation for nearly a quarter century, said he believes the Papua re-gion’s future is within In-donesia, not as a separate state.

“Talk to the Papuans, the OPM [Free Papua Organi-zation], but as brothers of Indonesia,” Ramos-Horta said in an interview last

week. “The Papuans, they have to feel that the gover-nment, the people in Java, really care about them.”

The conflict between In-donesia and the rebels, who number perhaps just several hundred, flared again last month when ar-med separatists in Nduga killed at least 17 people working on a trans-Papua highway construction site that’s a key part of Presi-dent Joko Widodo’s effor-ts to bring development to the impoverished region.

The government has said accusations that the military fired at villages with white phosphorous projectiles, a banned che-mical weapon, in retalia-tion are “totally baseless, nonfactual and gravely misleading.” At least four people were killed in the security operation. Wiran-

to, the top security minis-ter, has rejected the idea of talks.

Police have arrested then released hundreds of suspected independen-ce supporters and raided offices of the West Papua National Committee, a ci-vilian group that advoca-tes for self-determination. In Timika, police occupied the committee’s secreta-riat, graffitied it with slo-gans such as “Indonesia Forever” and demolished symbols of the indepen-dence movement.

Ramos-Horta, East Ti-mor’s president from 2007 to 2012, said res-traint is needed on both sides.

“So first, they must give up on armed attacks on Indonesian civilians or military authorities, but at the same time the Indone-

sian military also have to restrain themselves from not cracking down, atta-cking [...] people every time they demonstrate,” he said.

An independence move-ment and an armed insur-gency have simmered in the formerly Dutch-con-trolled region since it was annexed by Indonesia in 1963. Indonesian control was formalized in 1969 with a referendum known as the “Act of Free Choi-ce” held in an atmosphere of heavy intimidation in which only 1,026 Papuans were allowed to vote.

Nowadays, indigenous Papuans, largely shut out of their region’s economy, are poorer, sicker and more likely to die young than people elsewhere in Indonesia. Decades of In-donesian military brutali-

ty and impunity have con-tributed to deep resent-ment of Indonesian rule.

Ramos-Horta, howe-ver, said the situation in Papua is not comparable to East Timor’s indepen-dence struggle and there’s no role for the U.N. in the conflict.

East Timor, Ramos-Hor-ta said, was a Portuguese colony for more than 400 years before Indonesia invaded in 1975, whereas Papua was part of the Dut-

ch East Indies empire that was the basis for the bor-ders of modern Indonesia.

He believes Widodo, who is seeking a second five-year term in elections due April, is committed to ending the conflict wi-thout revising Indonesia’s borders.

“He will make every ef-fort to engage the brothers and sisters in Papua in dialogue to find a resolu-tion for the conflict,” he said. AP

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The head of Thailand’s im-migration police said yes-terday that an 18-year-old Sau-di woman who was stopped in Bangkok as she was trying to travel to Australia for asylum to escape alleged abuse by her fa-mily will not be sent anywhere against her wishes.

The woman, Rahaf Moham-med Alqunun, was allowed to temporarily enter Thailand un-der the protection of the U.N. refugee agency, which was ex-pected to take at least five to seven days to evaluate her case and claims for asylum status.

Thai immigration police relea-sed photos of Alqunun after she left the room at a Bangkok air-port hotel where she had been holed up. Where she would stay in the Thai capital was not an-nounced.

Alqunun had stayed in the room while sending out despe-rate pleas for help over social media. She began posting on Twitter late Saturday after her passport was taken away when she arrived in Bangkok on a fli-ght from Kuwait.

The agreement allowing her to leave the airport came after offi-cials from the U.N. refugee agen-cy, known as UNHCR, met with Thai immigration police chief

Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, and then with Alqunun.

UNHCR declined to release any details of its meeting with Alqunun, but its representative in Thailand, Giuseppe De Vin-centiis, noted “a good spirit of collaboration so far” with Thai officials.

According to Surachate, Al-qunun’s father was due to arrive in Bangkok yesterday night, and officials would then see if the young woman was willing to de-

part with him. He said the wo-man would be asked if she was willing to meet with her father. “As of now, she does not wish to go back and we will not force her. She won’t be sent anywhere tonight,” Surachate said at one of several news conferences at the airport. “She fled hardship. Thailand is a land of smiles,” he said. “We will not send anyone to die. We will not do that. We will adhere to human rights un-der the rule of law.”

On Twitter, Alqunun had wri-tten of being in “real danger” if forced to return to her family in Saudi Arabia, and has clai-med in media interviews that she could be killed. She told the BBC that she had renounced Is-lam and is fearful of her father’s retaliation.

Alqunun’s planned forced departure was averted as she stayed in her hotel room, with furniture piled up against the door, photos she posted online showed. Her plight mirrors that of other Saudi women who in recent years have turned to so-cial media to amplify their calls for help while trying to flee abu-sive families. Alqunun’s Twitter account attracted more than 50,000 followers in less than 48 hours and her story grabbed the attention of foreign governmen-ts as well as the U.N. refugee agency.

Her pleas for asylum have also brought international attention to the obstacles women face in Saudi Arabia under male guar-dianship laws, which require that women, regardless of their age, have the consent of a male relative — usually a father or husband — to travel, obtain a passport or marry.

They also show the limits of reforms being pushed by Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prin-

ce Mohamed bin Salman as he struggles to repair damage to his reputation after the grisly killing three months ago of Sau-di writer Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul.

Alqunun told Human Rights Watch that she was fleeing bea-tings and death threats from her male relatives who forced her to remain in her room for six mon-ths for cutting her hair. Phil Ro-bertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said Thailand should give Alqunun back her passport and let her continue her journey to Austra-lia. “She has a valid Australian visa,” he said. “The key thing is she should not be sent back to Saudi Arabia, she should not be sent back into harm’s way.”

Immigration police chief Su-rachate challenged parts of Al-qunun’s story, including her claim that she had an Austra-lian visa. However, he did not show her passport. “The fact is she didn’t have any money,” he said. “She intended to come here and didn’t have any visa to go to Australia. So we have to state the facts here. But we will provide assistance none-theless.”

For runaway Saudi women, fleeing can be a matter of life and death, and they are almost always doing so to escape male relatives. In 2017, Dina Ali Las-loom triggered a firestorm on-line when she was stopped en route to Australia, where she had planned to seek asylum. She was forced to return to Sau-di Arabia and was not publicly heard from again, according to activists tracking her wherea-bouts. AP

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Royals to pick new king Jan. 24 after abdicationMaLaysia’s royal families will meet on Jan. 24 to pick a new king after Sultan Muhammad V abdica-ted unexpectedly after just two years on the throne, an official said yesterday.

The 49-year-old ruler resig-ned Sunday as Malaysia’s 15th king, marking the first abdica-tion in the nation’s history and cutting short his five-year term. No reason was given, but the move came after he reportedly married a 25-year-old former Russian beauty queen in No-vember while on medical leave.

Keeper of the Ruler’s Seal, Syed Danial Syed Ahmad, said the Council of Rulers held a meeting yesterday and set Jan. 24 to elect a new king. He said in a statement that the new king would be sworn in on Jan. 31.

The council comprises nine hereditary state rulers who take turns as Malaysia’s king for five-year terms. Malaysia is the only country in the world

to have a rotational monarchy under a unique system main-tained since the country’s inde-pendence from Britain in 1957.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said earlier that it was up to the Council of Rulers to pick the new king, but added that he hoped it would be done quickly.

During his first stint as prime minister for 22 years until his retirement in 2003, Mahathir pushed through constitutional amendments that stripped the sultans’ power to veto state and federal legislation, and curbed their legal immunity.

The monarch’s role is largely ceremonial, since administrati-ve power is vested in the prime minister and parliament. But the monarch is highly regarded, particularly among the ethnic Malay Muslim majority, as the supreme upholder of Islam and Malay tradition.

Still, some sultans have in re-cent years become more active in business and politics. Sultan

Muhammad V delayed Maha-thir’s swearing-in as prime mi-nister after a historic election victory in May last year, and also delayed giving his consent to the appointment of a non-Muslim attorney general.

Sultan Muhammad V was installed as king in December 2016. He was one of Malaysia’s youngest constitutional monar-chs and has a love for extreme sports.

Reports in Russian and Bri-tish media and on social media featured photos of his wedding with a former Miss Moscow that reportedly took place in Moscow. Neither the sultan, the palace nor the government had officially confirmed the we-dding.

Speculation that Sultan Muhammad V would step down emerged last week, shortly after he returned from a two-month leave, but Mahathir had said Friday that he was unaware of any abdication plans.

National police chief Moha-

mad Fuzi Harun warned the public yesterday not to specu-late on Sultan Muhammad V’s abdication. He was quoted as saying by local media that poli-ce had received several reports of provocative statements being made on social media and were investigating.

Next in line for the top job is Sultan Azlan Shah of central Pahang state, who was king

from 1979 to 1984, but the 88-year-old is now unwell and didn’t attend yesterday’s cou-ncil meeting. Some observers said he can abdicate in favor of his son, who can become king.

After Pahang is the billionaire Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of sou-thern Johor state, who is invol-ved in business, owns a fleet of jets and loves Harley-Davidson motorcycles. AP

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Snubs, surprises and a Satanic shout-out? Key momentsJocelyn Noveck, New York

It was a moment when everyo-ne — absolutely everyone — expected to see an ebullient Lady Gaga climbing to the sta-ge in her dramatic periwinkle gown. Instead, a visibly stun-ned Glenn Close got the Golden Globe. But her deeply personal speech about women’s need for fulfillment outside the family soon had the crowd on its feet, providing the emotional hi-ghpoint of the night.

A year ago the Golden Globes were all about #MeToo and Ti-me’s Up. A year earlier, it was all about politics. The 2019 Globes were much less overtly activist or political, but speeches by Clo-se as well as co-host Sandra Oh and actress Regina King kept issues of equality and diversity alive in a more personal way.

Oh, and of course there was the usual Globes craziness: “Bohe-mian Rhapsody” as best dra-ma? The groundbreaking “Black Panther” snubbed? And nothing for Bradley Cooper — really?

Some notable moments of the night, in no particular order:

the power oF niceTaking the stage for their ope-

ning monologue, co-hosts Oh and Andy Samberg had an ex-planation for why they’d been chosen: they were “the only two people left in Hollywood who ha-ven’t gotten in trouble for saying something offensive.” Then they riffed on that by pretending to roast people by actually saying nice things. (“Bradley Cooper: You are hot!” ‘’Jeff Bridges, I wish you were my Dad!”) The bit didn’t get uproarious laughs but was pleasantly, well, pleasant.

but ... satan?Was this the first time Satan

got a shout-out in an acceptan-

ce speech? If so, we have Chris-tian Bale to thank. The Welsh actor was accepting his award for “Vice,” in which he made a stunning transformation into a chubby and bald Dick Cheney. After thanking castmates and director Adam McKay, he ex-tended a “thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration for this role.” He also mused that he mi-ght try to play Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell next.

a Decent night For ‘oLD men’

“Mary Poppins Returns” may have gone home empty-handed, but 93-year-old Dick Van Dyke, who has a wonderfully spry ca-meo in the film, got a big ovation when he came out with Emily Blunt, who plays Mary. And Michael Douglas, winning his Globe for “The Kominsky Me-thod,” exulted that “alte kakers rule!,” using the Yiddish term for “old man.” The 74-year-old actor also dedicated his award to his 102-year-old father, Kirk Douglas.

a time’s up chaLLengeA year after the Globes carpet

was a sea of shimmering black, worn in solidarity with #MeToo and Time’s Up, colorful gowns were back — though some at-tendees wore ribbons saying “TIMESUPx2,” marking the se-cond year of the gender equality movement. On the carpet was actress Alyssa Milano, who sent the tweet that made #MeToo go viral; she noted that in the past year, a “really wonderful sisterhood has formed.” It was actress Regina King of “If Beale Street Could Talk,” though, who made the most memorable re-ference to Time’s Up, resisting the orchestra’s efforts to play her off, and vowing that in the next two years, her producing

projects would be staffed by 50 percent women. She challenged those in other industries to do the same.

oh turns emotionaLAfter an opener with Samberg

full of zingers, Oh suddenly be-came emotional, explaining that she’d agreed to host the show — and overcome the fear — to celebrate the diversity of the nominated casts. “I wanted to be here to look out on this au-dience and witness this moment of change,” she said. “I am not fooling myself. Next year could be different. But right now this moment is real.” Soon after, Oh herself won best actress in a TV drama for “Killing Eve,” and thanked her parents, movingly, in Korean.

up cLose anD personaLWhen Close won best actress

in a movie drama, she seemed as shocked as everyone else. But then the 71-year-old actress made a heartfelt connection be-tween her role in “The Wife,” in which she plays a wife who subli-mates her own ambitions to tho-se of her husband in a stunning way, and her own life. “I am thinking of my mom who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life,” Close said. She added that women are expected to be nurturers, “but we have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, I can do that and I should be allowed to do that.” The crowd rose to cheer.

gaga’s winAt least Lady Gaga didn’t go

home empty-handed: She won as a co-writer for best song, “Shallow,” which she performs with Cooper in “A Star is Born.”

In her speech, she too referred to the challenges women face, not in the film industry but in music. “As a woman in music it is really hard to be taken seriou-sly as musician and as a son-gwriter,” she said, adding that her co-writers “lifted me up, they supported me.” Gaga wrote the song with Mark Ronson, An-thony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.

coLman’s ‘FaVourite’ thing

Not every speech had a serious tone to it. Olivia Colman, who won best actress in a musical or comedy for ‘The Favourite,’ in which she plays a comically troubled queen, told the crowd: “I would like to tell you how much this film meant to me, but I can’t think of it.” She also noted that one of her “favou-rite” things about making the film was that she “ate constantly through the film.”

what was that, DuDe?We’re not really sure what

he was saying in his rambling speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award — especially when he started talking about ships, and saying, “Tag, you’re it!” But hey, Jeff Bridges is best known as a stoner icon in “The Big Lebowski,” so it was sort of apt that he wasn’t so easy to follow. It was simply fun to ex-perience his joy; it’s just too bad he wasn’t wearing a bathrobe. Harrison Ford, coming next, was even crustier than usual. “Nobody told me I had to follow Jeff Bridges,” he said.

wow, she knows me?It was a sweet red carpet mo-

ment as Elisabeth Moss, star of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” dis-covered that Taylor Swift was a fan. Ryan Seacrest presented her with a video from Swift, gushing about the show. “I can’t believe she even knows who I am!!” Moss exulted, showing that stars can sometimes be exactly like us. AP

complete list of winners at 76th golden globe awardsFiLmDrama: “Bohemian Rhapsody”Actress, Drama: Glenn Close, “The Wife”Actor, Drama: Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhap-

sody”Comedy or Musical: “Green Book”Actor, Comedy or Musical: Christian Bale,

“Vice”Actress, Comedy or Musical: Olivia Colman,

“The Favourite”Actress-Supporting Role: Regina King, “If Beale

Street Could Talk”Actor-Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali, “Green

Book”Foreign Language Film: “Roma”Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma”Screenplay: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Pe-

ter Farrelly, “Green Book”Animated: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-

Verse”Original Score: Justin Hurwitz, “First Man”Original Song: “Shallow,” ‘’A Star Is Born”

teLeVisionDrama: “The Americans”Actress, Drama: Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”Actor, Drama: Richard Madden, “Bodyguard”Musical or Comedy: “The Kominsky Method”Actress, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Brosnahan,

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”Actor, Musical or Comedy: Michael Douglas,

“The Kominsky Method”Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: “The As-

sassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”Actress, Limited Series or Movie Made for Tele-

vision: Patricia Arquette, “Escape at Dannemora”Actor, Limited Series or Movie Made for Televi-

sion: Darren Criss, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”

Actress, Supporting Role, Limited Series or Mo-vie Made for Television: Patricia Clarkson, “Sharp Objects”

Actor, Supporting Role, Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: Ben Whishaw, “A Very En-glish Scandal”

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Britain testing ‘no-deal’ scenario as vote nearsBritain is testing how its motorway and ferry system would handle a no-deal Brexit by sen-ding a stream of trucks from a regional airport to the port of Dover — even as some legislators try to pressure the government to rule out the scenario.

The tests began yester-day and are intended to gauge how severe the dis-ruption would be if Bri-tain leaves the European Union on March 29 wi-thout an agreed upon wi-thdrawal deal.

It is expected that an abrupt departure without a deal would lead to the

introduction of tariff and customs barriers that would slow fast-moving

ferry and rail traffic that links Britain to continen-tal Europe. There are con-

cerns that major traffic jams leading into and out of ferry ports like Dover could greatly hamper tra-de and leave Britain wi-thout adequate food and medicine.

Parliament is expected to resume its debate over the government’s planned wi-thdrawal deal tomorrow, with a vote tentatively scheduled for early next week.

There are no indications that lobbying over the ho-lidays has garnered Pri-me Minister Theresa May more support for her plan, which has sparked wide opposition in Parliament.

A vote that had been sche-duled in November was delayed as May admitted it would face certain de-feat.

The prospect of the bill’s possible defeat next week has renewed concern about the “no-deal” si-tuation that Britain wou-ld face as the withdrawal date approaches without any arrangements in pla-ce.

Fears about economic disruption yesterday sparked roughly 200 le-gislators including some from the prime minister’s Conservative Party to wri-te to May asking her to

rule out the no-deal sce-nario.

May has not spelled out how she will respond if the withdrawal bill is voted down next week.

Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng said yesterday that the government is still focused on winning the vote.

“A week is a very long time in politics. We don’t know what the numbers are,” he told BBC. “We have got a week. I think the situation — as it always does — has developed, it evolves. I am very hopeful that the deal will be voted through next week.” AP

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The world’s largest air-borne observatory was supposed to be parked in Seattle this week, so thousands of scientists atten-ding the “Super Bowl of Astro-nomy” could behold this mar-vel: a Boeing 747 outfitted with a massive telescope used to stu-dy the fundamental mysteries of the universe.

But conference-goers will not be able to see NASA’s space-ex-ploring plane. Its visit to the 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society was can-celed, one of a growing list of scientific casualties of the par-tial government shutdown now stretching into its third week.

Along with the plane, hun-dreds of government scientists are also no longer allowed to attend the conference or two other major scientific gatherin-gs scheduled to begin this week. Those meetings will address pressing issues in the fields of technology, space exploration, extreme weather and climate change.

But the shutdown’s impact on science stretches well beyond the empty chairs at this week’s conferences, said Keith Seitter, executive director of the Ame-rican Meteorological Society. It means some of the nation’s smartest scientific minds are si-tting at home, not doing science, for weeks, with no clear end in sight.

“That’s difficult to recover from,” said Seitter. “We’ll be seeing ripple effects from this for a long time.”

Attendees of the events descri-

be them as crucial opportunities for scientists from the govern-ment, the private sector and aca-demia to exchange research and ideas. The gatherings are like three-legged stools, said Kevin Petty, the chief science officer for the private climate company, Vaisala. And this week one of the legs is missing.

“That’s the value of these con-ferences, it’s the people I run into in the hallway or the cof-fee line, start up a conversation and realize there’s a connection between what they’re doing and what I’m doing,” said Amanda O’Connor, a satellite imaging expert who is attending a wea-

ther conference. “It’s those se-rendipitous encounters that are lost and really important.”

Some 700 federal employees who planned to attend the American Meteorological So-ciety conference in Phoenix are staying home. Another 500 will miss the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ SciTech Forum and Exposition in San Diego. The American Astronomical Society estima-tes that between 300 and 450 scientists will be absent this week from the world’s largest annual astronomical meeting, where the NASA plane was su-pposed to be. But it’s hard to get

a firm count, said Rick Fienberg, the organization’s press officer: Organizers emailed a survey, but furloughed government em-ployees aren’t even allowed to check their email.

Even Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s new administrator, and the lea-ders of the National Weather Service are no longer able to attend the weather conference, and the organizers scrambled to replace their presentations.

Until late last week, Fienberg said the astronomical organiza-tion had hoped the politicians in Washington could work out a deal to resolve the impasse over President Donald Trump’s de-

mands for USD5.6 billion to bui-ld a wall on the southern border.

But on Thursday, employees at the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administration, whi-ch includes the National Wea-ther Service, were told to cancel their conference plans. Scien-tists and engineers from NASA and the Smithsonian were also told they couldn’t attend.

Conference organizers have scrambled to shift speakers, re-lax the rules to allow non-gover-nmental employees to present the work of their federal collea-gues and negotiate with hotels to allow government employee to cancel reservations made long ago.

“In the same week that the Chinese government lands a ro-ver [on the far side of the moon] and the U.S. sends a probe to the furthest object ever visited by humanity,” said Kevin Mar-vel, the astronomy organiza-tion’s executive officer, “scores of scientists at all career levels are being prevented from atten-ding our meeting.”

One concrete casualty could be the government’s ability to recruit and retain the next gene-ration of scientists, said Seitter, with the American Meteorolo-gical Society. Take E.L. Mesza-ros, a doctoral student at Brown University, who had been sche-duled to present her research on human-drone communication techniques at the San Diego te-chnology conference.

But her work was funded by NASA, as was her trip to the conference. So she’s stuck at home in Rhode Island. She always imagined she’d work as a public servant. But now she has scientist friends who work for the government who haven’t been paid in weeks and are in-terviewing at other places.

“If you can’t guarantee that you’re going to be able to pay your employees,” she said, “then it does make you second guess whether that’s where you want to work.” AP

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Actor Kevin Spacey was set to appear today [Macau time] in a Nantucket courtroom to answer accusations that he groped a young man in a bar on the small Massachusetts island in 2016.

Spacey has said he will plead not guilty to a charge of felony indecent assault and battery.

The court appearance by Spacey comes more than a year after former Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh accused the for-mer “House of Cards” star of sexually assaulting her son, then 18, in the crowded bar at the Club Car, where the teen worked as a busboy.

Spacey’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, has sought to poke holes in the case, noting that the teen didn’t immediately report the alle-gations.

If convicted, Spacey faces up to five years in prison.It’s the first criminal case brought against the 59-year-old Os-

car-winner since other allegations of sexual misconduct surfa-ced against him in 2017.

A judge denied Spacey’s bid to avoid appearing in person Monday at the Nantucket District Court. Spacey had argued his presence would “amplify the negative publicity already ge-nerated” by the case.

Unruh told reporters in November 2017 that Spacey got her son drunk and then grabbed his genitals during the incident. She said her son fled the restaurant when Spacey went to the bathroom.

After the charge was announced last month, Spacey relea-sed a video in the voice of Frank Underwood, his character on Netflix’s “House of Cards,” in which he said, “I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the thing I didn’t do.” It was unclear whether he was referring to the charge.

Spacey has also faced other allegations.His first accuser, actor Anthony Rapp, said Spacey climbed

on top of him on a bed when Rapp was 14 and Spacey 26. Spacey said he did not remember such an encounter but apo-logized if the allegations were true.

Offbeatkevin spacey to appear in court on sexual assault charge

France is mourning the loss of its longest-serving president, Francois Mitterrand, who has died at the age of 79 from pros-tate cancer.

The news was announced by President Jacques Chirac at a news conference at the Elysee Palace.

He told journalists: “For 14 years M Mitterrand wrote an important page in the history of our country. A great figure has left us.”

World leaders have paid tribute to France’s former presi-dent, but Germany’s Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s was probably the most heartfelt. The pair had formed a close friendship in their shared goal of seeing through European integration.

“Europe has lost a great statesman,” he said.“I am mourning a good friend. We worked together in a

close and trusting way for many years in building Europe and the deepening of German-French friendship.”

He leaves behind him two sons by his wife, Danielle, and one daughter by his mistress Anne Pingeot.

Mr Mitterrand was a controversial figure with a murky past.The son of a stationmaster, he graduated from the pres-

tigious Institute of Political Sciences. In 1940 he was taken prisoner after the fall of France and escaped from Germany in 1941 to join the collaborationist Vichy government. He then switched allegiances to the resistance movement.

He held ministerial posts in many cabinets from 1947 until 1958 when Charles de Gaulle became president. A strong opponent of de Gaulle, he made first unsuccessful attempt at the presidency in 1965.

In 1971 he became leader of a new Socialist Party consis-ting of various disparate left-wing groups. Three years later, in 1974, he tried once more to win the top job but was defeated by Valery Giscard d’Estaing.

Finally he won the presidential elections in 1981 to become the first socialist president in 35 years.

He left office in May 1995 after two seven-year terms and two periods of “cohabitation” - having to work with a righ-t-wing majority in parliament, first with Mr Chirac as prime minister in 1986 and then with Edouard Balladur in 1993.

Mr Mitterrand earned himself nicknames from friend and foe alike.

Socialists called him Tonton (meaning Uncle) and admired him for bringing the left back into power. The tabloids du-bbed him the Great Seducer for his reputation as a womani-ser, counting film stars Brigitte Bardot, Michele Morgan and Josephine Baker among his lovers, as well as France’s first female prime minister Edith Cresson and former minister Eli-sabeth Guigou.

And his critics called him “God” because of his expensive architectural “Grand Projects” in Paris - including the glass pyramid at the Louvre and the massive Arche de La Defense - and his monarchic style of leadership similar to his prede-cessor General de Gaulle.

And like de Gaulle, Mr Mitterrand rejected the pomp of a state funeral. He will instead be buried after a private cere-mony in the family tomb in the village of Jarnac, near Angou-leme, where he was born.

A mass will be held simultaneously at Notre Dame in Paris attended by world leaders.

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1996 france’s former president mitterrand dies

in contextFrancois Mitterrand’s legacy to his right-wing rival Jacques Chirac was high unemployment, mounting public debt and rising taxes. The new president struggled to tackle these problems. His attempt in 1995 to reduce costs in the heavily subsidised railway system led to a crippling transport strike and capitulation to the workers.President Chirac called elections in 1997 to try to boost the number of right-wingers in parliament. The move backfired, the socialists won and, like his predecessor, the president was forced to “cohabit”, this time with Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin.Even after his death, the Mitterrand name was linked with scandal.In October 2004, in what has been described as France’s Watergate, 12 people went on trial for running a phone-tapping operation used by the late president to monitor his opponents.A few weeks later Francois Mitterrand’s son Jean-Christophe received a suspended 30-month jail sentence for tax evasion.Then in July 2005 Admiral Pierre Lacoste, the former head of the DGSE spy agency in France, confirmed Mitterrand had authorised the bombing of a Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, in 1985. The New Zealand government called the bombing the country’s first terror attack.

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